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A Use For Energy Bread...

Eric-C

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Eric-C Enthusiast
Eric-C
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At Christmas my brother made my wife and I a separate baked chicken since the rest of the family was having turkey and even though I would not eat the stuffing I did not want to take the risk of having the turkey since stuffing was in it.

I asked him not to make stuffing simply because rice bread is so horrible that I doubt the stuffing would be edible.

Well he made it anyways and said if we didn't like it just don't eat it. He didn't have too high of hopes himself after tasting the bread before he made it.

It turned out incredible. I'd give it a 95 percent if real white bread stuffing was 100 percent. It for sure fell within the margin of the worst white bread stuffing we ever made, and the best white bread stuffing we ever made.

I called him the other day to find out what bread he had bought since my wife and I were making a turkey last night and wanted to make stuffing again. He told me Energy which I know everyone on here laments.

We bought the White Rice bread and wow that stuff is horrible, we tried some as we were breaking it up.

But after all said and done it did make great stuffing. Its close enough that I doubt anyone would tell, they'd just say it wasn't the best we've done.

Its super simple and its excellent:

For a 14lb turkey:

Break up one loaf of Energy White Rice bread into small bits, maybe .5 inch in size, crust and all.

Chop 1-2 large onions into small pieces

Chop 1-2 stalks celery and run through food processor until they are extremely finely chopped

Sage

Salt

Pepper

~ 3/4 cup water.

Mix the bread, chopped onion, and finely chopped celery in a bowl. I put light salt on top, light pepper and sage to taste. Pour in a little water and mix by hand. Salt, pepper, sage, water.

Keep doing that until its well mixed. You don't need a lot of salt or a lot of pepper, its the sage that does it.

On white bread when you were done you'd end up with a wet ball of bread, with this you don't but it works.

We stuffed the turkey and put it in a electric roaster. 2 cups of water with salt and pepper in the bottom of the pan. Cut 2 very large onions into 8 pieces each and place around the pan. Take a bunch of celery and cut off each end and place around the bottom of the pan.

Cover with foil and cook until about 1/2 an hour before the assumed time, for us it was 4 to 4.5 hours for the weight so at 3 hours and 45 min you remove the foil to brown the top. We baste the turkey with butter before hand and then use the mix at the bottom of the pan to baste it continuously while it cooks.

Its incredibly simple and the celery/onions will make you the best turkey you've had. We've done it this way for years at the holidays and such a simple change makes it the best we've had, including being better than my mothers and I've never said that about anything we've ever cooked.

Normally for the holidays we use a fresh turkey from a local farm which are excellent and part of the reason why we felt they turned out so good. Last night we used a frozen turkey from Sam's club. After Thanksgiving Sam's marked down their turkey's and we picked up a few 14lb turkeys for $8 a piece. This one came out just as good as the fresh ones.

We use corn starch to make the gravy and end up with a lot of gravy, easily 3-4 cups.

Its for sure one meal we can make gluten free and I doubt anyone would really know the difference.

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JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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Yes, many of us discovered how awesome Ener-g bread is for stuffing after buying it and not being able to eat it. It's even better if you use chicken broth instead of water for the stuffing.

lizard00 Enthusiast
lizard00
Posted

Well, that would explain at least why it's still being made. I tried it once... UGH!! We're not really into stuffing, we eat it every few years. I wondered why it was still around since everyone thought it was so gross.

At least it has a good use!! LOL :lol:

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted

:D I used it for stuffing the first Thanksgiving I was gluten-free--at the time it was the only gluten-free bread I could get locally and I hadn't yet ventured into baking.

Although it leaves a lot to be desired as is, it did make great stuffing cubes that held up very well when mixed up with the stuffing ingredients.

GFqueen17 Contributor
GFqueen17
Posted

yup we use the energy bread for stuffing too....even my dad and my boyfriend who eat gluten eat it!

Lisa Mentor
Lisa
Posted

It makes a great door stop. B)

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted
It makes a great door stop. B)

:lol: That too!

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